EDIT: Although not the first post of this thread, I am assuming you are talking about the PDF download in the link I myself posted (because it was previously obfuscated). I downloaded it and submitted it to VirusTotal. Nothing detected. Let me know if there's some other file that u/SomniaVelociusQuam was referring to.
If you privately send me the link in the deleted post, I'll tell you if I think it was actually malicious. That's a serious allegation.
It's still in the first post of this thread
I followed the thread and don't see it.
EDIT: Although not the first post of this thread, I am assuming you are talking about the PDF download in the link I myself posted (because it was previously obfuscated). I downloaded it and submitted it to VirusTotal. Nothing detected. Let me know if there's some other file that u/SomniaVelociusQuam was referring to.
It's still there: pdfdrive DOT com/secret-societies-and-psychological-warfare-e186460926 DOT html
Thank you. I later assumed that to be the case, but since the comment was deleted, I still didn't know for sure. Thank you for confirming.
The file seems free of detected malware for ten years.
Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck no need for a police line up I'm not the fuzz just calling it like I see it
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/6287b6ed28e665022e7578d3df7de4e8c2c85256e8ba3fe3856ce1003bbc0be2/detection
That file has been analyzed many times since 2014.
Anti-virus software works by having a database of known malicious code to reference against, if it's not known it's not defended against.
It is a very old file. I don't think any PDF Zero-days remain that way for a decade.